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Kepple: seed-stage startup funding in Japan fell 42% YoY in 2025 to a 10-year low of $124M, as the Tokyo Stock Exchange moves to reduce small listings (asia.nikkei.com)
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Sources: Uber has committed nearly $500M to self-driving startup Nuro, providing a crucial runway as Nuro works to prove its technology at commercial scale (www.reuters.com)
1 day ago Uber Startup

Sources and docs detail defense tech startup Shield AI's struggles to overcome years of technical hitches and safety concerns with its V-BAT autonomous drone (www.reuters.com)
1 day ago Startup AI Drone

Sources: AI coding startup Lovable is in talks to raise funding at a $12B valuation, up from $6.6B in December 2025 (www.forbes.com)
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Canada unveils its AI strategy that it says will help create 250,000 jobs by 2031, with a CA$500M tech fund to invest in homegrown AI startups (www.reuters.com)
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Robotics startup Generalist, which released its GEN-1 model to complete short physical tasks in April, raised $400M led by Radical Ventures at a $2B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2 days ago Startup Robot

Bengaluru-based grocery delivery startup FirstClub raised a $55M Series B co-led by Peak XV and Sofina at a $255M valuation, up from $120M in September 2025 (techcrunch.com)
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Sources: Benchmark raised $2B across two new funds, including a $1.25B fund for late-stage bets, its first growth fund after decades focusing on new startups (www.wsj.com)
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Boston-based software monitoring startup Coralogix raised a $200M Series F at a $1.6B post-money valuation, up from $1B+ after a $115M Series E in June 2025 (techcrunch.com)
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How OpenAI, Anthropic, and AI startups are pursuing “recursive self-improvement”, in a bid to build AI that can improve itself with little to no human input (giftarticle.ft.com)
3 days ago Startup AI

Israeli startup ZutaCore, which builds direct-to-chip liquid data center cooling systems, raised a $100M Series C from Mitsubishi and more at a $600M valuation (www.calcalistech.com)
3 days ago Israel Startup Mitsubishi

How startups Westmag, which raised an $11M, a16z-led seed in August 2025, and Atlas are seeking to make actuators, the foundation of hardware, outside of China (www.corememory.com)
3 days ago China Startup

AI music startup Suno raised $400M led by Bond at a $5.4B valuation, up from $2.45B after raising $250M in November 2025, and passed 2M subscribers in February (www.bloomberg.com)
3 days ago Startup AI

Barcelona-based HR software startup Factorial raised a $150M Series D led by General Catalyst at a $2.5B valuation to expand AI agents and grow in Germany (www.wsj.com)
4 days ago Germany Startup AI

French quantum computing startup Quobly, which is developing silicon-based quantum computers, raised a €115M Series A led by Bpifrance, SEALSQ, and STMicro (tech.eu)
4 days ago France Startup Quantum

Oxford Quantum Circuits, a UK-based startup building and deploying quantum computers, has raised a $350M Series C led by Bullhound Capital (sifted.eu)
4 days ago Startup Quantum

Israeli data security startup Cyera raised $300M at a $12B valuation, after raising $400M at a $9B valuation in January (www.calcalistech.com)
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Crunchbase: SF startups hit a record of 1,404 seed deals in 2025, while the number of NYC seed deals has dropped over the past three years, to 666 in 2025 (www.wsj.com)
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Startups from the pre-ChatGPT era face a reckoning in private markets; PitchBook: half of US unicorns haven't raised in three years, 220+ are “fallen unicorns” (www.cnbc.com)
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Gigascale Capital, a climate tech VC firm co-founded by former Meta CTO Mike Schroepfer, closed a $250M fund to back early-stage startups supporting the AI boom (www.bloomberg.com)
5 days ago Startup AI Climate

African e-mobility startup Spiro, which owns 100K+ electric bikes, raised $215M at a near-$1B valuation, after raising $100M in 2025 and $50M debt in 2026 (www.bloomberg.com)
5 days ago Startup Africa

Runway, the AI startup most recently valued at $5.3B, plans to make London its European headquarters and invest $200M+ into the UK's AI ecosystem by 2028 end (www.cnbc.com)
6 days ago Europe Startup AI London

US Aims to Give Cold War Plutonium to Startups For Nuclear Fuel (hardware.slashdot.org)
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AI startup Shift launches a free home cleaning service in NYC to record first-person video with a camera-equipped cap and use it to train robots (www.theverge.com)
8 days ago Startup AI Robot

EY-Parthenon: VC funding for Singapore startups fell 34% YoY to $4.6B in 2025, with AI startups accounting for 42.8% of the 472 deals, raising $1.4B, up 28% YoY (www.dealstreetasia.com)
9 days ago Startup AI Singapore

Corgi, which uses AI to provide insurance for startups, raised a $106M Series B1 at a $2.6B valuation, up from $1.3B on May 6, for a total funding of $378M (techcrunch.com)
9 days ago Startup AI Insurance

Dealroom: London overtakes Paris to reclaim its position as Europe's leading tech hub, and now ranks fourth globally; London startups raised $17.7B in 2025 (www.reuters.com)
9 days ago Europe Startup London Paris

As the US AI boom drains venture capital from Africa, startups on the continent are pivoting to domestic funding sources, like pension funds and local VC firms (www.bloomberg.com)
10 days ago Startup AI Africa

AI coding startup Cognition AI raised more than $1B at a $26B valuation, and says its revenue run rate has increased to $492M from $37M in May 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
10 days ago Startup AI

Milan-based social travel startup WeRoad raised a $58M Series C led by Airbnb, taking its total funding to ~$100M, to expand into the US, starting in Austin (techcrunch.com)
10 days ago Startup Airbnb

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